The Film Daily (1934)

THE j^X DAILY Wednesday, June 13, 1934 CLEANING FIRM FIGHTS AMENDMENT TO CODE (Continued from Page 1) who testified at public hearings called for the purpose of hearing objections and affirmations to the proposed amendment. Counsel for the company, Joseph Burger, told Division Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt, who opened the hearings, that his company would be seriously hurt if the 40-hour week which prevails in the motion picture code for this type of labor, was extended to employees of his company which furnishes cleaning and janitor service on a contract basis. At the present time this company operates only under the PRA and was granted an exemption allowing its men to work 48 hours. The new proposed amendment would reduce its employees' working time to 40 hours in one week. In lieu of adherence to the 48 hour provision of the PRA, the company's counsel offered an amendment which would include their employees only where a theater owner hired the services of his company as a subterfuge to evade the wage and hour provisions of the code. Burger cited a previous ruling of the policy board to the effect that services of his type of company were exempt from a code for any other industry division in NRA. The point was overruled by Deputy Administrator William P. Farnsworth, who succeeded Rosenblatt at the hearings, by pointing out that all industry divisions under which his company operates such as cleaning office buildings, apartment houses, and the like, are part of one NRA division, division five of which Rosenblatt is the head. Burger cited the fact that his company THE INDUSTRY'S DATE BOOK June 13-14: Allied leaders' meeting in New York. June 16-July 2: International Motion Picture Week, Vienna. July 16: Meeting of S. M. P. E. board of directors at Westchester Country Club, Rye, N. Y. June 18: Meeting of Paramount's National Advisory Council of Theater Operators, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. June 18-19: Warner-First National regional sales meeting, San Francisco. tune 18-20: RKO annual sales convention, Drake Hotel, Chicago. June 18-20: Paramount annual sales convention Hotel Ambassador I is Angeles. June 18-22: American Federation of Musicians convention, Cleveland. June 20: Annual Boat Ride of the Warner Club aboard S.S. Peter Stuyvesant to Bear Mountain. June 24-26: Convention of Southeastern Theater Owners Association, The Ansley Hotel, Atlanta. Ju'y 25: I.T.O.A. boat ride and outing. June 28: World premiere of "The World Move! On" at Criterion, N. Y. Aug. 1-20: Second Exhibition of Cinematography. Venice, Italy Oct. 29: S.M.P.E. Fall Meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. NEWS OF THE DAY Winchester, Mass. — Winchester still remains the only township in this state which neither has nor permits motion picture exhibitions. The Board of Selectmen refuses to grant the application of Albert J. Locatelli for a permit to open a house and further states that it does not feel a postcard ballot among the citizens would be satisfactory. Louisville — The Virginia Amusement Company at Hazard has been incorporated for $5,000 by L. O Davis, George D. Combs and Hazel Davis. Salem, Mass. — Several communities in Essex County, including Peabody, have adopted the policy of having checkers watch the theaters to see if any on the welfare list are movie fans. Louisville — The cost of the recent I.A.T.S.E. convention in Louisville for a five-day session was estimated at approximately $150,000. Chicago — The E.A.R. theater, South Side neighborhood house, has been leased for 10 years by Harry Balaban from the owner, E. A. Rysdon. Chicago — George Raft, picture star, is appearing in person at the Chicago theater. Chicago — Because of illness S. J. Gregory, head of the Gregory circuit of motion picture houses in Indiana and Illinois, has left for Greece for a three-month stay. operates on a nationwide business and cleans many types of enterprises, if it is included under the motion picture code would then be included under all wage and hour provisions of other codes for other types of industries, he claimed. Rosenblatt previously pointed out that outside contract labor was already provided for in the code in article 4, division C part one, section 4 relating to contract chorus girl employment which was subject to the same provisions as if the •horus girls were direct employees of the theaters themselves. Burger objected to this argument on the ground that chor-s girls confined themselves to the thoaters only vhereas his ' employees went from theaters to office buildings, restaurants and the like, not relating to movie theaters. The company claimed about 25 per cent of its employees were engaged in servicing theaters in the New York area. As the hearings progressed it became evident that the question involved, centered not only about the film code but all codes in general and may require a definite NRA ruling on the matter in order to classify that type of industry. Prior to conclusion of the hearing at noon, the representative of the labor advisory board proposed an amendment to the effect that no employee could violate a code by the employment of contract labor and another stating no employee could be dismissed for reporting alleged violations of a code. All proposals and objections to the amendment which would bind contract cleaning employees to a 40 hour week were taken under advisement by NRA officials to be followed by subsequent private conferences. Minneapolis — ■ Minneapolis Monogram will distribute 52 Master Art short subjects, according to Gilbert Nathanson, manager. SCANDINAVIA TO MAKE 30 FILMS THIS YEAR Between 25 and 30 features will be produced during 1934 in the Scandianavian countries, principally Sweden, it was, stated yesterday by Carl P. York, managing director for Paramount in the Scandinavian countries, who is here to attend the Paramount convention. Thirty-one films were produced in 1933. Business has been consistently good the past few years, and at no time has there been any considerable slump because the Scandinavian lands have escaped the brunt of the depression, York said. There are no double bills in either Sweden, Norway, Finland or Denmark, according to York, who is chairman of the film board of trade which determines such policies, and there won't be any. About 15 new theaters will be constructed this year, York said. At present there are 1,700 theaters in the four countries. Paramount, which operates a theater in Stockholm and two in Malmo, is the only American company operating theaters in Scandinavia, York stated. America's first real su the new St. Moritz Cafe de la Paix — with its colorful awnings, and its Continental air of leisure, was designed on European lines by the well known young architect, Zareh Sourian. Here you are able not only to drink an aperitif in the open, with the green stretches of Central Park before you, but also to play checkers, dominoes and backgammon exactly as in the Cafe De La Paix in Paris. * * * "The Most Interesting America" in DIRECTION . . S. GREGORY TAYLOR